Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, creamy pesto chicken & pasta quick hack. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Season chicken with salt and pepper, and rub chicken with the basil pesto. Heat olive oil in a large nonstick skillet. All the flavors of Italian pesto (fresh basil, pine nuts, Parmesan, and garlic) in a simple creamy sauce.
Creamy Pesto Chicken & Pasta Quick Hack is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Creamy Pesto Chicken & Pasta Quick Hack is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have creamy pesto chicken & pasta quick hack using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Creamy Pesto Chicken & Pasta Quick Hack:
- Make ready Your favorite Chicken part/s
- Get Bottled or ready-made Pesto sauce
- Take garlic cloves, smashed
- Take red onion, sliced coarsely
- Make ready large or 2 small dry bay/laurel leaves
- Take or more water
- Make ready chicken bullion or broth cube
- Make ready Cooked pasta
- Make ready all purpose cream (nestle or other)
- Take peppercorns (huge pinch)
- Get Salt
- Make ready Sprinkle of Parmesan (optional)
This One Pot Creamy Pesto Chicken Pasta was inspired by those little packets of powdered pasta sauce mix I always see in the grocery store. While those little packets are probably great for camping, stocking a bomb shelter, or keeping in your emergency hurricane supplies, I think regular weeknights call for something better. Maybe a pint of ice cream, but my Creamy Skillet Pesto Chicken is a close second! This super quick Creamy Pesto Pasta with Chicken and Broccoli combines the vibrant flavors of basil pesto with tangy cream cheese to make a deliciously rich sauce to smother the pasta, chicken, and broccoli.
Steps to make Creamy Pesto Chicken & Pasta Quick Hack:
- In a pot heat your water and add the bay leaves, garlic, onions, peppercorns and 1/4 of a chicken bullion cube. Add your chicken (salted lightly), thawed or 1/2 frozen. How much chicken? Depends how many are eating. How much water? Enough to submerge the chicken. Cover, turn, check until chicken is cooked (about 15-20 mins for 2 pcs of quarter chicken). Set aside when cooked.
- Meanwhile while boiling chicken, cook your pasta according to package instructions. Don't forget to add salt and oil or butter in the water. Set aside when cooked.
- Pesto sauce- to make it quick and easy, buy a pre-made or ready made pesto sauce from the supermarket. Normally they are in small bottles good for 2-3 servings. You can use the whole thing depending on how many are eating. If there's excess oil in the bottle, separate and pour it in a container (if u want to use it later on), no need to strain or to be exact. We need to remove the excess oil since this is a creamy sauce.
- In very low heat, pour the oil-drained pesto in a pan. Add your nestle or all purpose cream and 1/4 of the remaining chicken bullion cube. Stir in the flavors. Add a few tablespoons of the chicken broth from the boiled chicken to enhance the flavor, but not too much to make it soupy. To thicken, you can add more cream. Taste and season accordingly.
- Plating- plate your chicken and pasta then scoop your pesto sauce on top. OR toss it in a big bowl but ensure that your pasta is well drained as the excess water will make it soupy. Sprinkle on Parmesan cheese (the Kraft kind or cheese block kind). Enjoy!
- Note: the chicken broth tastes good too, you can serve it as a side soup with a sprinkle of scallions. Or freeze and use it for a chicken noodle soup dish.
The pesto provides all the garlic and herbal flavor needed, so there's no need to even dice an onion, mince garlic, or measure any herbs. This Creamy Chicken Pesto Pasta Recipe has the perfect amount of creamy, tangy and yummy! Savory Creamy Chicken Pesto Pasta Recipe has everything going for it - easy, few ingredients and delicious!. In a bowl combine the cream cheese and pesto sauce. Divide the cream cheese mixture evenly between the chicken breasts.
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